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Linux Mint- Anti-Virus?

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Hi there.

I have just installed Linux Mint onto my Laptop and thought I bet get some free Anti-Virus on it.

When I try and install the AVG its telling me that it is already installed.

So what i was wanting to know is if it comes with the AVG already installed?

Thanks.
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  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    The Mint/Ubuntu repositories offer Clamav as a supported anti-virus package, with ClamTK as a GUI front end.
  • OwtForNowt
    OwtForNowt Posts: 1,685 Forumite
    Baldur wrote: »
    The Mint/Ubuntu repositories offer Clamav as a supported anti-virus package, with ClamTK as a GUI front end.

    lol im really sorry, but i didnt understand a word of that, im like my nana when it comes to all the technical stuff. So basically it already has anti-virus on and i dont need to do anything?

    Thanks.
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  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    No, you need to use the package manager to check if it is installed and, if not, to install it.

    It's a command line program, so if you want to do the simple point & click bit, also install ClamTK, which will allow you to do this.
  • bob_man_uk
    bob_man_uk Posts: 517 Forumite
    never used mint linux, but apparently check here
    in terminal, type
    which avg

    it seems to just locate where the application is installed and if you run it, you should be fine.


  • OwtForNowt
    OwtForNowt Posts: 1,685 Forumite
    Cheers, iv just installed them two. :D
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  • bob_man_uk
    bob_man_uk Posts: 517 Forumite
    is AVG installed by default? im downloading linux mint now so ill be able to give it a good test shortly
  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    If ClamTK reports that the GUI is out of date (the version in the repositories usually is), the latest version is available at http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/

    You want the Debian/Ubuntu download.
  • bob_man_uk
    bob_man_uk Posts: 517 Forumite
    does this usually matter if you use the "testing" repositories? i usually use apt instead of synaptic (or whatever gui people use) and pretty much always after installing a new system set up the latest testing repo's
  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    bob_man_uk wrote: »
    does this usually matter if you use the "testing" repositories? i usually use apt instead of synaptic (or whatever gui people use) and pretty much always after installing a new system set up the latest testing repo's
    ClamTK updates tend to be so frequent that they don't hit any of the repositories (approved or otherwise) AFAIK.
  • bob_man_uk
    bob_man_uk Posts: 517 Forumite
    fair enough. are all these antivirus "linux alternatives" actually on access scanners or just different av companies product that does the same as clam scanner in a different gui?

    i remember mcafee claimed they had it with red hat 9 support, they claimed it would work ootb (at least the sales guy did) ended up borking my test server, lucky i didnt put it straight onto the production server like my boss wanted me to do :P
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